GLEANINGS FROM PUNCH.
Nothing New under the Sun. — Professor Otto yon Foggenkopf, the well-known Greek professor of Gottingen, has pointed out that the ancients were certainly acquainted with gun-cotton. The shirt of Nessus, which burnt poor Hercules to death, must evidently have been made of this combustible.
Naval Reform. — Orders have been given to allow tobacco as formerly to the men in the Queen's ships, while lying in harbour. The attempt to put the sailors' pipes out has consequently ended in smoke.
Friendly Advice. — Since the establishment of public washing places, there cannot be a more benevolent speech than "Go to Bath" addressed to a mendicant.
The Napoleon of Snuff. — In consequence of the number of boxes given away by Louis Philippe to the Spanish Court, snuff has gone up. ir> Madrid three hundred per cent. His Majesty has quite logo's notion of the magnanimity of the Spaniards when he gives them snuff boxes, and thinks them " led by the noses as asses are."
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 183, 1 May 1847, Page 4
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164GLEANINGS FROM PUNCH. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 183, 1 May 1847, Page 4
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